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But this 14-year-old girl's textually-derived maps and cartographically-arranged texts also provide some of our best direct evidence for the teaching practices of famed women's educational reformer Emma Willard. Willard founded Frances Henshaw's school at a time when geography was taught almost entirely through prose, and there she developed a new, visual and experimental pedagogy. This led her to assert her own impact on spatial and historical understanding in the early American republic unblushingly:

"In history," wrote Emma Willard, "I have invented the map."

This site houses work in progress by Bethany Nowviskie -- an experiment in using Neatline 1.0, a geo-temporal annotation framework created by the Scholars' Lab for Omeka. The goal here will be to describe and display Frances Henshaw's work -- and to re-position it, in many senses of that word. Mostly, though, it's an opportunity to test and tinker with Neatline.